# Fractures at Essity Professional Hygiene North America LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023031894` · 3/1/2023 · CHEROKEE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Posts, bollards, moorings
## Employer
- **Name:** Essity Professional Hygiene North America LLC
- **Location:** 1834 Haley Drive, CHEROKEE, ALABAMA, 35616
- **NAICS:** 322121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to remove a core chuck from a spent parent roll tissue core using a powered pallet jack with a chuck clamp attachment. The employee was pinned between a yellow post and the powered pallet jack, and was found lying on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured back.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*